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Changes to the GMC’s core guidance for doctors could lead to more regulatory investigations, the MDU warned today. The GMC is currently consulting on a new version of Good Medical Practice including widening the scope of the standards against which all doctors will be judged. Setting these standards is a key function of the GMC. By clearly… Read more »
A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »
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Gordon Brown last night backed Tony Blair’s programme of public service reform, and made clear he would not stop if he became prime minister. Mr Blair was heckled and booed as he tried to defend his reforms to the TUC in Brighton yesterday afternoon, with some members of the RMT walking out. But later, at… Read more »
Union leaders have universally condemned Tony Blair’s speech to the TUC in Brighton today, seeing it only as the final words of a defeated prime minister. His annual address to trade unionists has never been Mr Blair’s favourite event and when announcing last week that he would quit Downing Street within a year, he noted… Read more »
